Unmetered
Mitigation gives customers unlimited and unmetered distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack protection regardless of the size of
attack. This is a break from other DDoS mitigation services that charge
more based on the size of the attack received.

Without protection, DDoS attacks overwhelm the available bandwidth or
servers of an Internet property, knocking it offline. When an Internet
property or application faces an especially large attack, nearly every
DDoS mitigation service will charge extra to block it. With DDoS attacks
getting bigger and more sophisticated each year—Cloudflare’s network
mitigates a major DDoS attack every three minutes—Internet property
owners face significant and unexpected charges with no way of avoiding
them.

“DDoS attacks are, quite simply, a plague on the Internet and it’s wrong
to surprise customers with higher bills when they are targeted by one,”
said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “With Unmetered
Mitigation, we’re breaking the industry’s practice of surge pricing when
someone comes under attack. It was an easy decision for us because it’s
the right thing to do.”

Many security companies operate like insurance providers. The consumer
pays a fee for the first year and as soon as something goes wrong, the
insurance company increases the premium for the next year. Cloudflare is
not only ending per-Gbps overage fees, but also that insurance model.
With Unmetered Mitigation, DDoS protection is now a basic part of all
Cloudflare plans, keeping every Internet application and property online
without penalizing customers with extra charges.

Business
and Enterprise customers will continue to benefit from additional
advanced mitigation services including superior reporting, productivity
enhancements, fine-grained controls, business and enterprise-grade
service level agreements (SLA’s), and customer support options to fit
their individual needs.

With more than 117 data centers and 15 terabits per second of DDoS
mitigation capacity, Cloudflare has one of the largest networks in the
world. With this scope, Cloudflare’s network is able to mitigate even
the largest DDoS attacks, without impacting other customers on the
network.